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This has been a week for stories!!  First an adventure to get to Stampin' Up!'s Leadership Conference in Orlando through/around a blizzard, then more snow this week!! This is a picture of the front of our house from the road.  Note the icicles? My daughter, Lyndsey, noticed that they're only on one side of the street!  Interesting!! We received about 15+ inches of snow this week, Monday to Tuesday, and digging out was not so fun!!  But, my husband, son, daughter and...

I wanted to share very quickly the thank you notes I enclosed with my jewelry party thank you notes.  The new hostess set in the Occasions Catalog, Making a Point, has a bunch of cute images.  Although this would be better suited to a makeup party, I think my attendees get "the point" (No pun intended! LOL!)! I embossed the nail polish bottle with gold Encore ink and gold embossing powder, then colored in the image with my aquapainter and the Melon Mambo/Basic Gray ink. The...

Hi friends!  I finally have a few days off in a row to do some fun stamping!  Yesterday, I had my weekly class with my wonderful ladies -- boy, do I ever enjoy stamping and sharing with them.  I'm going to share my class project photo with you, but first I need to tell you that every card I made was cased! Yep, some much more than others!  I'll try to include the source, but let me start out by telling you that I LOVE Pinterest!!  There are so many great...

Once again it's been a number of months and I'm going to jump in to update my blog again!  I never stop creating, but sometimes get put off my the time it takes to load some information here, mainly because I'm a perfectionist and want to make sure you can easily find the resources to create yourself!  Well, here's next week's card class, Winter Thank You.  Stamps:  Lovely as a Tree, Four You, Perfectly Penned, Lots of Thanks, Festive Flurry, Best of SnowSupplies...

One wrong button and I lost the original post that I wrote up!!I wanted to share some cards that I made with 9 wonderful ladies in my Christmas Card class Tuesday night (# 1 of 3!).  We made 10 cards, 5 of 2 different designs!  Check them out!!The card on the right was inspired by the Merry Little Christmas Simply Created Kit  (#133827, $17.95 for the clear stamp set and the kit!).  Since the kit makes only 8 cards, and I needed supplies to make 45, I decided to case it...